ABSTRACT
Clothes protect vulnerable skin and they keep us warm or cool. Clothes have enemies in the higher cultural realms, as well as in parks in Lancashire. Fashion is everywhere in the incident. Even the way in which the young couples were injured by stamping and jumping on their heads follows the loathsome 'style' of several recent drunken youth-gang attacks. That practice shows human mimicry in its lowest form, where it resembles a vicious infection. The young couples were 'moshers' or goths, and the attack was provoked by their clothes. In Iraq, Afghanistan and northern India women may be killed for among other things, wearing Western clothes rather than an enclosing gown or a sari. It is true that the goth style plays with death and fear, and it is possible that in the teenage killers there was a trace of fear or disturbance at the death-games played by goths.
